From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 11:15:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F33F37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA10511; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:22:09 +0100 Message-ID: <3A6C86F5.988FF9F7@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:16:05 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: blah blah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question concerning installation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG blah blah schrieb: > > I have installed freebsd 4.0, after installing i reboot...then i get the > choice of F1 for DOS and F2 for FreeBSD, when i press F1 i boot into > windows, but when pressing F2 to boot into FreeBSD it just gives me a > beeping noise and does nothing. Everytime i hit F2 it just beeps and nothing > happens. Would you know as to why this happens? Or what i might have done > wrong. Probably the install failed. Just a beep indicates the boot loader cannot be found at the default place. Try to install again. Use the "novice" install mode. Even experts use it, as the expert mode is left for tweaking already running systems. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message